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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
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Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
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The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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